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

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

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

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

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

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