He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis.

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.