Tom the Teacher

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Ones own soul, and the passions of one’s friends—those were the fascinating things in life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name