If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Evan Davis

Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

George Eliot

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

Neil Gaiman

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Stephen Richards

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Charlie Kaufman

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Jennifer Aniston

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Jean Webster

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Erika Slezak

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Paul Nurse