The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

You look what's happening all over Europe - Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

If you're not taking care of yourself, lipstick and foundation isn't really going to do anything for you.