"The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now."
— Bill Cosby

"I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out."
— Philip Roth

""great gandalfs ghost!
if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...""
— Margaret Weis (Elven Star)

"Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. "
— Jim Jarmusch

"- A pan czy wierzy w duchy - spytał prelegenta jeden ze słuchaczy.
- Oczywiście, że nie - odparł prelegent, po czym z wolna rozpłynął
się w powietrzu.

free translation:
-Do you believe in ghosts Sir? - listener asked a lecturer.
-No,of course not - answered lecturer and slowly disappear into thin air."
— ? In a book of Strugatsky "Monday starts on Saturday"

"Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis

Mr. P.: Go to hell"
— Ghost Town

"All poets, and most writers of prose, will say that their thought is never so exalted, their sense of beauty and proportion never so just, as when they are listening either to the artificial music made by man, or to some of the grander tones of nature, such as the roar of a western ocean, or the sighing of wind in a clump of firs."
— John Meade Falkner (The Lost Stradivarius)