"Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around."

“I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.”

“Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

“I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master of the Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”

“Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.”

Source : George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.16