"But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!"

"Living mythical-political systems are invisible to those who live within them. The problem of myth and consciousness is reflected in the old saying: We don’t know who discovered water, but it certainl…"

"Now, at the dawn of the age of Maitreya, there is needed a Yoga comprising the essence of the whole of life, all-embracing, evading nought. One remembers the example of those unignitable youths in the…"

"Obsessive Memories," essay on memory and his father, Greil Gerstley, who died in World War II."

"The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Thus with one sentence I ca…"