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A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths.
A story attains the status of myth when it is retold, and persistently retold, solely for its own sake.
It was not Freud’s theory of the unconscious that led him to Oedipus, but the myth of Oedipus that shaped the way he listened to his patients.
The Torah is not the story of the Jews; it is what makes Judaism a story.
Even when it is God who is heard by the prophet, it is a god who speaks in the language and idiom of the prophet, and not in locutions restricted to divine utterance—as though that god’s speaking were itself a form of listening.
Whenever we succeed in being the only speaker, there is no speaker at all.
