It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable o… - Joseph Campbell

The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two.

The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned — showing you what the shape of the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through.

The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, “Don’t open that closet”? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.