“… The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120

Source: The Sword of Summer

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Source: What is Anthropology? (2nd ed., 2017), Ch. 2 : Key Concepts

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The Expanding Universe (1963)
Context: What a child doesn’t realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairly tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture. Many … books are from this realm… books on Hindu myth, Chinese folklore, the life of Buddha, tales of American Indians, books that lead our children beyond all boundaries and into the one language of all mankind.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth... The extraordinary, the marvelous thing about Genesis is not how unscientific it is, but how amazingly accurate it is. How could the ancient Israelites have known the exact order of an evolution that wasn’t to be formulated for thousands of years? Here is a truth that cuts across barriers of time and space.

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 117