"America feels like it's unraveling." (1)

"The Crisis ends one saeculum and launches the next." (39)

"Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves; instead, they create the shadows of archetypes like themselves." (79)

"In cyclical time, a society always evolves. Usually, the circle is a spiral of progress, sometimes a spiral of decline." (105)

"We may not wish the Gray Champion to come again - but come he must, and come he will." (142)

"The Second Turning would have come, one way or another. It was time." (170)

"America had entered the Awakening today remembered as the Consciousness Revolution." (171)

"Whether we realize it or not, we will be ready for a dramatic event to shock the nation out of its complacency and decay." (253)

"One large chapter of history ends, and another starts. In a very real sense, one society dies - and another is born." (259)

"Thus will American reenact the great ancient myth of...