"Our deeper struggles are in effect our greatest spirtual and creative assets and the doors to whatever creativity we might possess." (p. 62)
"There is a familiar image of the writer starting at a blank sheet of paper in his typewriter beside a wastebasket overflowing with crumpled false starts at his story. This image is true figuratively if not literally, and it represents the frustrations of the creative process in engineering as well as in art." (p. 75)