All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

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