Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

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.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

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

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.