What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.