“I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.”

“You have an amazing imagination!" "I Know," I say, smiling back at her. "my head is chock-full of gruesome ideas”

“On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.”

“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . . . the girl-group is a gigantic narrative full of morality tales locked up like charms in a crystallized sound.”

“Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.”

“The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”