Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

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.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.