Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.