What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

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.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

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