Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper

Thomas Carlyle

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

Source Unknown

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Molly Ivins

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Henny Youngman

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,Whether the summer clothe the general earthWith greenness, or the redbreast sit and singBetwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branchOf mossy apple tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost a

May those who love us love us.And those that don't love us,May God turn their hearts.And if He doesn't turn their hearts,May he turn their ankles,So we'll know them by their limping.

Irish Curse

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Dave McKean

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Arthur Koestler