This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Facts are lonely things.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Life is the offspring of death.

The only thing that is pathetic... is you.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!