Amidst this gray, dreary anonymity we know that we live in a world from which all the gracious marks of "presence" have been banished."

"As Otto Rank remarked, the neurotic is the “artiste manqué,” the artist who cannot transmute his conflicts into art."

"Most of us are so preoccupied with the noise, .. the cacophony of the modern world that we have no energy left for constructive living."

"The rebel function is necessary as the life-blood of culture, as the very roots of civilization."