“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.”

“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness”

“It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”

“The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.”

“Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?”