I don’t want realism. I want magic!
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?
We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
We live on two levels, the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really…[to Miss Jelkes]
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior.
