And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.