Dean Rafuse

“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.”
― Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.”
― John Gunther

“Everyone knows everything eventually.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder