Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life’s experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?
Denial exists when three beliefs intersect: 1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you. 3. It cannot happen to you now.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
I think God is such a good idea that if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent God.
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.
'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Adriana: That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
