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

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

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.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.