The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.