the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

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.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.