The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

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.

There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.