“Steel on the skyline
Sky made of glass
Made for a real world
All things must pass”

“…Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.”

“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”

“Hegel made famous his aphorism that all the rational is real and all the real rational; but there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrational, that reason builds upon irrationalities. Hegel, a great framer of definitions, attempted with definitions to reconstruct the universe, like that artillery sergeant who said that cannon were made by taking a hole and enclosing it with steel.”

“Spring in the world!
And all things are made new!”

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

“I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.”

“Love is no true-made looking-glass
Which perfect yields the shape we bring;
It ugly shows us all that was,
And flatters every future thing.”

“A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.”

“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.”