One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?