Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Laird suffered second degree burns ...in the frank and beans area, if you know what I mean." Trent winced. That must have been one hell of a breakup.

Who can know when his world is going to change? Who can tell before it happens, that every priorexperience, all the years, were a preparation for . . . nothing.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.