“Forgetfulness is the catalytic germ of spontaneous creativity”

“Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.”

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.”

“This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.”

“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office.”

“But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.”