“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training”

“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.”

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”

“Creativity feeds on creativity for survival.”

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

“Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth' ... Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory – it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe ... I think most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been the result of such a moment.”