A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

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

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face