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“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes straight to the subconscious. Non-fiction uses the medium...”
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?”
“We hold this myth to be potentialNot self-evident but equationalAnother DimensionOf another kind of Living Life”
“There is at least one truth to every myth.”
“I sometimes go to a mythical place called "workplace", where the doable is always unpassable as possible, especially when it pisses you off.”
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.”
“What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother’s remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?”
