“You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope.”

“I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.”

“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”

“Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow,
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore,
You may not see me tomorrow.”

“I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.”

“If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.”

“A serious mistake in a nightie,
A grave disappointment all round
Is all that you'll get from th'Almighty,
Is all that you'll get underground.
Oh he said: "If you lay off the crumpet
I'll see you alright in the end.
Just hang on until the last trumpet.
Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend."”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“Then I can see that I'm with you [in Dresden] at the end of April - beginning of May. Then I'll also paint with you the few works which are desired of me, if you'll help me - because I have already forgotten how to paint.”

“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”