Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Akira Kurosawa

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Terry Pratchett

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Exista vise simbolice, vise care simbolizeaza realitatea. Sau exista realitati simbolice, realitati care simbolizeaza vise.

Haruki Murakami

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I’m not so weird to me.

Haruki Murakami

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, – it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have
 seen the
 future and
  it doesn't work.
                                   -- Robert Fulford