We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules