Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.