I don't need faith. I have experience.

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

You are the Hero of your own Story.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.