The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.