“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”— Neil Gaiman, goodreads.com
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”— Neil Gaiman, goodreads.com
“You disappear so completely into your head sometimes…I wish I could follow you.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.”— Margaret Weis, amazon.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can’t get back in time to wake up?”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com