Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.