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

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

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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.

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

All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.