Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.