“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“I am participating in the evolution of inspired action.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 140
“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
King Aegistheus to Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
The Issue (1908)
Context: Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself, but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe to myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
“Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.”
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 23.
“I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.”
As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 226
