Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

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

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.