More great stuff from The Power of Myth:

Campbell: There are some teachers who decide they won’t teach at all because of what society will do with what they’ve found.

Moyers: What if the hero returns from his ordeal, and the world doesn’t want what he brings back?

Campbell: That, of course, is a normal experience.

Endlessly fascinating, this book. I think Campbell’s first sentence perfectly mirrors what Einstein says about wishing he had become a watchmaker, and the second puts me in mind of Galileo. Except this was a discussion about myths that were thousands of years old. Another gem, especially from an improv perspective:

Campbell: There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the “love of your fate,” which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing.

Gives a lot more weight to denials, right? You have to accept your life holistically or you have not accepted it all.