I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.
–Anaïs Nin
I don’t want realism, I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!
–from A Streetcar Named Desire
