We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

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

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)