It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.