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

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

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

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