The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

I have an animal friendly Bible.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Thought has no gender.