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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.