This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.