The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

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)

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

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.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.