By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.