We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

The place to find is within yourself.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

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 change the world, you have to change the metaphor.