Paul

“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”
― Tom Waits

“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:
A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her own.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves