“What about nightmares? Have you experienced sexual dreams of a dark nature?”

“What if all things in our imagination exist somewhere?" he said. "What if dreams are real?""It would be nice to have black wings," Emily admitted."But it would be our fears, too. Our worst nightmares. Perhaps the dark things are balanced by the sexual imagination, the nightmares tempered. The place of dreams, of suppressed consciousness, ceases to be merely the repository of the bad things we can't face, as we build, instead, a paradise, because we fuck.""There are Buddhist sects that say so. There are temples in Asia with very shocking carvings.”

“I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare”

“You don't have to sleep, you don't have to dream, to have nightmares.”

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.”

“I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”