The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.