He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden of debt that so ties them to a survivalist mode of existence that it's impossible for them to dream anymore. Trying to recognize what the forces are that actually squelch the imagination is a lot more interesting to me than people who go and "find themselves" because they're no longer on the grid.
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
