Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

The king was pregnant.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.