There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
The real fear isn’t rejection, but that there won’t be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
I don’t write science fiction. I’ve only done one science fiction book and that’s Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.
Your imagination is more real than the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.
You cannot create in another’s life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.
Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it’s strength.
You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Every real teacher is myself in disguise.