We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.