When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

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.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality