If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

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

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

Everything starts with a story.