The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.