“It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.”

“If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more that we all shared the dream of never dying or traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner more unhappy illusion we call normal life.”

“He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't”

“I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.”

“Bad dreams never come true. The both of them had been so young, that had sounded almost wise.”

“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”