Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.