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

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.