Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

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.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.