There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

The universe does not work by our rules

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me