ordered me a sky from a florist

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.