When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.