Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)