Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.