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.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

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.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.