"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth."
-Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”
— Eugene O’Neill
“She was rare, a perfect creation, a work of purest art. A delicate flower that bloomed in the liquid light of the moon. A nature not of this world, a personality like that of some biblical maiden, gracious and queenly.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man