There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

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.

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

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.