The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

The gods have become our diseases.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.