“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word”

“And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification”

“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

“Without a use this shining woman lived - Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.”