“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

“One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.”

“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.”

“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)”

“Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)”

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”

“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.”