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What is meant by "reality"? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Something that looks good does not necessarily taste good.

Everything in the past died yesterday, and everything in the future is born today.

A light is still a light, even though the blind man cannot see it.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest -- thought, action -- is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

It takes only one other person to say it's so -- one other point of reality to make something real.

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere, in nature, an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.