After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.