Ernest Becker Quote

The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of experience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" creativity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

The Denial of Death (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2007) - ISBN: 9781416590347