Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.