"You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

“You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.”

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

“I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.”

“The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.”

“An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”