Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

The two most powerful forces in the world, Love and Money !People will kill for both.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.

Don't worry, I won't bite. At least not in the way you're afraid of.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.