Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

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.