It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

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)

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.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.