“Reality is something you must rise above.”

“Reality is something you rise above.”

“Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.”

“You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.”

“I was convinced the answer to life's enigmas must lie in connecting our emotional yearnings to nature.”

“But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief.”

“It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.”