“It’s not impossible,” Minelli said.
“No,” Edward admitted, “but it’s paranoid as hell, and that’s the last thing we need, more fear.”

“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

“All souls last forever
So we need never fear goodbye.”

Paul Williams (songwriter) (1940) American composer, singer, songwriter and actor

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

“He said he didn’t care if he went to heaven or hell, because neither could be more fearful than absolute nothingness; salvation and damnation were one and the same if the only thing out there was total nothingness.”

Kenzaburō Ōe (1935) Japanese author

“It's impossible to fear and love God at the same time. Simply, because you can't enter into heaven and hell at the same time!”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

“I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children