The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

I don't have faith, I have experience.

Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.