I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.