Every Act Of Genuine Creativity Means Achieving

Professors Will Lecture With More Inspiration If They Occasionally Alternate The Classroom With The Beach: Authors Will Write Better When, As Macaulay Used To Do, They Write For Two Hours, Then Pitch Quoits, And Then Go Back To Their Writing. But Certainly More Than The Mere Mechanical Alternation Is Involved.

Intimacy Requires Courage Because Risk Is Inescapable. We Cannot Know At The Outset How The Relationship Will Affect Us.

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.

No One Can Separate Themselves From One's Social Group And Remain Healthy, Because The Very Structure Of Personality Is Dependent On The Community.

Communication Leads To Community That Is, To Understanding, Intimacy, And The Mutual Valuing That Was Previously Lacking. Community Can Be Defined Simply As A Group In Which Free Conversation Can Take Place. Community Is Where I Can Share My Innermost Thoughts, Bring Out The Depths Of My Own Feelings, And Know They Will Be Understood.