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.

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 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.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.

Courage to dare is the strength to endure.

I dare you to work harder than your dream demands.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

You only need a heart full of grace

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.