The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

Understanding is a very dull occupation.

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.