Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.