The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

I do not believe...I know.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.