Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about — clouds — daffodils — waterfalls — what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in — these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.