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

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

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

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)

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.