They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.