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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.