Madness, and then illumination.

“Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.”

— Orson Scott Card

“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with…

— Colin Wilson

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.…

— Carson McCullers

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which…

— Audre Lorde

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is…

— Bankei Yotaku

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach…

— Julie Mehretu

“He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.”

— Aprilynne Pike

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We…

— George H. W. Bush

Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes…

— Rob Brezsny

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in…

— Spencer W. Kimball