Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

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

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.