Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.