We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.

I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

You know when your mouth a-getting dry You're plenty high.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.