You can trust them [emotions and fantasies], not to arrange life the way you want it, but to arrange the elements of your soul in a way that will offer rich life in the future.

The experience of beauty is not just one of pleasantness but of the power of an image to give order and to clarify your situation.

It helps to know who is living through you at any given moment. The less you know about it, the more it dominates and keeps you from other adventures.

She separated herself from life so that she could finally heal her soul. We have seen this theme over and over, how the dark night is fulfilled in some form of withdrawal from active life.

That changes when you leave with a story that’s good enough to put you back in the moment, as if you were living it all over again. That’s why we took the Legends so seriously. If people were coming to us to add to their collection of experiences, then we saw these not as extra flourishes but as a responsibility: to give people a memory so good it enabled them to relive their experience with us.

The true gift, then, wasn’t the street hot dog or the bag full of candy bars; it was the story that made a Legend a legend.