It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.