Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.