No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Thank God for the journey of life.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.