“It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.”
“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.”
“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”
“Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear.”
“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.”
“It’s not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They’re all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.”