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

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

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.