I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.