If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.