Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

Susan Shaughnessy

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Fuchs

I've never worried about age.

Jeanne Moreau

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Harry A. Overstreet

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.

Blaise Pascal

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

Paulo Coelho

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

Steven Wright

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.

Ezra Pound

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J.K. Rowling

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Irvin S. Cobb