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

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

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

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.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.