During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

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

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.