"Coming Up for Air" Quotes

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

The trouble with losing your illusions is that you find out that you're left with nothing but the truth.

The past is dead, the future is unimaginable.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

The real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to deal with it is to keep your distance from it, and to keep your sense of humor.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.