Tim O'Brien Quotes

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

We're all dreamers.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Everybody's a dreamer.