There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

We make the path by walking.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.