“The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”

“Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.”

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,”