Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.