(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am the soul in limbo.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Truth, at times is just an accepted opinion

Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... dream your dream... then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

The worst thing about losing this job: I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.