The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'