Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
I am not a myth.
The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.