Reality

"What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?"

"You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee"

"Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?"

"All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God."

"A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality."

"What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."

"Either they're still naive, or stupid."

"Imagination, like reality, has its limits."

"The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel."

"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."

"They'll take everything, even your tears."

"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."

"Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."

"There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing."

"You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless."

"In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is found not in the realm of ideas but in the energizing desire that is realized through precipitation. Desire tends towards its own realization and change takes place when the desire for it shatters the bounds of the possible, breaking the dialectical equilibrium holding together the framework of what is existent. It is at such moments that the imaginary flows into the real and overwhelms it, inundating it until it has been absorbed."

"The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion."

"Harsh justice is still justice."

"A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements."

"We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them."