There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

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.