People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

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

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.