But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

Donald Trump heard a voice out in America that no one else heard.

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.