I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.