One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Topics: Genius Quotes, Insanity Quotes, Passion Quotes

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and...

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and...