Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. " -the Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn
Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.
Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun. " We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.