There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

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.

The king dead is a living god.

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

If you walk out on me, i'm not walking out after you.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

Some folks believe that global warming doesn't exist and that the environment doesn't need any help. I tend not to listen to them.

You have to believe that you can act and that you're the right person for the job but I think it's good to not always know how you're going to do it. The fun part is trying to figure it out.