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.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

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

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.