Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

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

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

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.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.