Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.