The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

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.