I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what’s so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. 2.14K
Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I’m up for that. 607
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. 645
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. 806
There’s a good deal in common between the mind’s eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. 638
My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer. 2.08K
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling – that you’d take on vacation and rather than going out, you’d read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that’s what readers are responding to. 675
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I’m making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it’s always for them. 2.17K
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. 570
I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy. 1.88K
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. 2.5K
