Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine the telephone the talking-machine and the automobile for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams you know with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create to invent and therefore to foster civilization.

I think she is growing up and so begins to dream dreams and have hopes and fears and fidgets without knowing why or being able to explain them.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Dont be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone the sheets wet with your tears and your seed knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive leaping across fragments of the day bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times which are like a ledger for her her body full of stories and situations.

I had a dream about you. We were fishing in the Utah desert. You caught a dinosaur but due to Federal regulations we had to release the bones so Ted Kennedy could drive back to the cemetery drunk.