Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson's notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum of my...

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.

We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the...

When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet...

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted,...

Her passions were narrow but deep.

Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn't everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about...

To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the...

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they...

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. {from Thailand}

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and...

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in...

My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

Like dew I was bornLike dew I vanish..and all that I have ever done Is but a dreamWithin a dream

The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of...

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.