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

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.

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.

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

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.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

New life, new hopes.

Taste is a mystery.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.