Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.