For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

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

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

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.