Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

If you are falling....dive.