“There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.”

“Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...”

“A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.”

“Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.”

“It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.”

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”

“Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man”