When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel, , torment

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.