No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

The real war will never get in the books.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.