Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

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

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.

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

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.

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

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.