Bill James Quotes

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

I'm in my dream world.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.