It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

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.

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

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

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