Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.