People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
The king was pregnant.
Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.
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.
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.