I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.