The Amazing Thing About Love Is That

One Longs For The Presence Of A Leader Like Lincoln, Who Openly Admitted His Doubts And As Openly Preserved His Commitment.

If We Admit Our Depression Openly And Freely, Those Around Us Get From It An Experience Of Freedom Rather Than The Depression Itself.

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

Care Is A State In Which Something Does Matter; Care Is The Opposite Of Apathy. Care Is The Necessary Source Of Eros, The Source Of Human Tenderness.

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)