Not accustomed to entertaining angels, are we?” he asked.

Once darkness has what its wants, it drops you like a hot potato.

Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.

The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero, ” the whisperer said.

As the Great Magician says, there will always be trouble in the world. That’s why I say, there will always be a time for heroes.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.