All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

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.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.