Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.