I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

There are lots more people in the House. I don't know exactly - I've never counted, but at least a couple hundred.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

He who wins the independents wins the White House. That's a liberal Democrat trick, by the way.