Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

Having ascended to some spiritual strength by focusing on the power of the feminine, it is no doubt tempting to wield this strength against that which triggers memories of having once been weaker.

Women are seen as imperfect or unclean, because of a myth of a tempting apple, because they bleed monthly, because they lack equivalent upper body strength.

Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.

I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell.

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.