To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.