“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”

“Humanity in the face of the idea of hidden knowledge reminds one of the people in fairy-tales who are promised by some goddess, fairy or magician that they will be given whatever they want on condition that they say exactly what they want.”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

“Does not see these separate figures one by one,
And yet see only one”

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

“Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance. p315”

“What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”

“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”

“What is meant by "the representation of space"? What distinguishes one representation from another? Does this mean "how does one see that one thing is not another thing?" What constitutes a change of focus?… What about "another way of establishing (?) "thingness"? "Something" can be either one thing or another (without turning the rabbit on its side)..”