Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

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.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.