The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological scrim; the claim that myths are invented to give sanction to human predilections and institutions... These are ways of trivializing a mode of thought that has served humanity well for a very long time.

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.