“Surprise is where creativity comes in.”

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”

“I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.”

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”