To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.