“The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.”

“A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.”

“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain’s surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized”

“A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”