It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them..

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner..

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconn….

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative..

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concern….

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeki….

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species..

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it..

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea a….

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour..

One man's faith is another man's delusion.

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us..

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, fe….

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as ir….

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it..

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed..

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is c….

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of pe….

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven..

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates..