I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.