Quotes on “myth”

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.