Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

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

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.