“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

“You can't force your will with the universe. You just have to trust how things unfold.”

“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.”

“You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

“Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.”