When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost...

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

You don't have to do anything.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.