“This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!”
“I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing did not require belief. It was not a feeling of horror in one's bones, or a misty outline, or anything that needed to be given actuality by an act of faith. It was as solid as a wardrobe. You don't have to believe in wardrobes. They are there, with corners. (The Troll)”
“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
“Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.”
“The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live.”
“It is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe.”