“Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.”

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 97

Writing and Being (1991)

Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
Misattributed

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 13
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

Interview With The Vampire (1976)

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 109

No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117.
Context: The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, among others, reconstituted and interpreted in Totem and Taboo. It would be impossible to ferret out a single example of slaying the father in primitive religions or mythologies. This myth was created by Freud. And what is more interesting: the intellectual élite accept it (is it because they understand it? Or because it is "true" for modern man?)

Source: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia