Forge In The Smithy Of Your Soul.

The Turtle Only Makes Progress When It's Neck Is Stuck Out.

Depression Is The Inability To Construct A Future.

There Is No Authentic Inner Freedom That Does Not, Sooner Or Later, Also Affect And Change Human History.

Artists Do Not Run Away From Non-being, But By Encountering And Wrestling With It, Force It To Produce Being.

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)