To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.