I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent…

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational…

— Tom Wolfe

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have…

— William Butler Yeats

THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of…

— Rick Riordan

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the…

— George Saunders

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

— Louis Leterrier

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman was invented…

— Brian Azzarello

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition…

— John C. Wright

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps…

— Rick Riordan

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was very serious.

— Satish Kaushik

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which…

— Laeta Kalogridis

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes…

— Michael Dirda

It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths…

— Patty Jenkins

What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of…

— Suzy Kassem