Only a fool is not afraid.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.