The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.