There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

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.

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.