The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Before grabbing a mythological creature, I’d recommend putting on oven mitts. Especially if you pick up a Phoenix.

Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

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

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

I am weary of your quarrels,Weary of your wars and bloodshed,Weary of your prayers for vengeance,Of your wranglings and dissensions

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?

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (...)

Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.

Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving powe