Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

They’ve loved you your whole life and you’ve been gone for days. I’ve just loved you for the better part of a week and losing you just ‘bout drove me crazy.

A story is a wondrous invention.

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

You must all pay attention to your health first.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.