Robertson Davies

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog;
fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the
wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

W.H. Auden

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon,
but not about a man pushing a button that
releases a bomb

Hermann Hesse

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough
for a joke.

Ruben Dario

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my
song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the
season of the Spring!

Peter Falk

If your mind is at work, we're in danger
of reproducing another cliche. If we can
keep our minds out of it and our thoughts
out of it, maybe we'll come up with
something original.

Ron Wood

My real self is probably more creative and
more frightening than any sort of drink or
drug-induced state.

Muhammed Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years
of his life.