Robert Bly

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.