“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”

“Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.”

“A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.”

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”