People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

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.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

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.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

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

We are gods with anuses.