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

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

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...

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...

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

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

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

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...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying...

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...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

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...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...