Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.