Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not, it's not the end.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Truth is inner harmony.