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

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

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

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.

Everything in moderation.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.