Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

Faith is irrational, which is why those who exercise it are rewarded irrationally.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

What would the world be without him, and those like him?

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into nothing and go down a quantum hole.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.