I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

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

And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.