“The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.”
“When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment”
“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”
“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”