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- He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
- But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert
- You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. — Elizabeth Gilbert
- You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? — Elizabeth Gilbert