Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

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.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.