People tend to take stories literally these days.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.