A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.