“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”

— Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record (1912), "A Familiar Preface"

About Joseph Conrad

1857 – 1924

Polish-British novelist, author of "Heart of Darkness".

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”

“Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”

“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature.”

“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization.”

“One has to have the imagination to think of something that has never been seen before, never been heard of before.”