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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.