We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.