There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.