"Since he couldn’t find traditional backing for the film,
a group of well-wishers… financed it."

— William Grimes on the late Clive Donner  

"We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns"
– Wallace Stevens 

Suzanne Vega, album cover, 'Beauty and Crime'

"There's a small hotel
With a wishing well"

— Lorenz Hart