“We haven't come this far to be ordinary.”

“Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.”

“We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so.”

“In other words: don't hide your differences, but shout about them. Be proud of them.”

“......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...”

“He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”