If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)