[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.