Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

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

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

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

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

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

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.