The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I’m addicted to – I’m a master at “Angry Birds.”
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
In a novel, if you’re any good, you don’t just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
That’s the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it’s real.
I don’t feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there’s a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you’re not a national.
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you’re overwhelmed by something or if you’re not.
For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world...
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice. The bridge of illusion must be shattered in order for a real bridge to be constructed. One of the things we learn is that inequality is an illusion.
I think our culture doesn’t recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.