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

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.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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

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

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

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

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

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometime tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour- Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.