For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.