“Many people believe that without anxiety there would be no motivation for a creative life. ‘If I am to be good, someone must beat me.’ But creation is not mere flight from punishment and fear, and no one wants the surgeon to be anxious, with his knife in a trembling hand. The problem is that we are now wielding the incredible surgical instrument of technology with trembling hands, and what concerned Huxley was that such power cannot be handled constructively by anxious and alienated men with a fundamentally hostile attitude to nature.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?