The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.