At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.