"When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the imp…"

"The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear c…"

"Mary Poppins is both a joy and a curse to me as a writer ... As a writer, you can feel awfully imprisoned, because pe…"

"It is clear from Gurdjieff's writings that hypnotism, mesmerism and various arcane methods of expanding consciousness…"

"Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the …"

"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."

"A great friend of mine at the beginning of our friendship (he was himself a poet) said to me very defiantly, "I have …"

"“Myth, Symbol, and Tradition” was the phrase I originally wrote at the top of the page, for editors like large, cloud…"

"The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but …"

"There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as childr…"