Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.
[Change is] the only evidence of life.
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid. If I left my jacket at school for the third time and my mom was really angry at me, I would make up a lie and I would just really believe in it. This sounds a little bit sociopathic.