Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.