I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

—Dr Seuss

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Your mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. Feed it good thoughts.

 —Zig Ziglar

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

—Andy Warhol

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

—Carl Jung

I’ll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It’ll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that’s all decorated.

—Edie Brickell

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

—Maya Angelou

There is an island fantasy / A “Someday I’ll,” we’ll never see / When recession stops, inflation ceases / Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases / That “Someday I’ll” where problems end / Where every piece of mail is from a friend / Where the children are sweet and already grown / Most unhappy people / Put happiness on “lay away” / And struggle through a blue today / Life’s most important revelation / Is that the journey means more than the destination.

 —Denis Waitley

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

—Lord Byron

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

—Lionell Trilling

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

 —Oscar Wilde

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

—Iris Murdoch