“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”

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

“Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.”

“With the market so much more in control of the global economy now than fifty years ago, then if economists are right, the world should be a manifestly better place: it should be growing faster, with more stability, and income should go to those who deserve it.”

“If I have one more (point) than the opposition, then I’m going to have a better weekend than they will.”

“A book had always been a door to another world… a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy.

And that love could fill the real world with magic.”

“You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.”

“There are more things, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“Read one page of Stephen Hawking about the event horizon, about the possibility that we will soon know, not where the universe originated, but where it is tended, and the event horizon to which we may all be headed. There is more to inspire awe in one page of Stephen Hawking, than in any of the fantasies of Tertullian, imagining that he could go to the window of heaven, when he was promoted there, and look down, for his consolation, on the torments of the damned. There is much more to be awe-inspired by, in a page of Hawking, than in any number of burning bushes, or other such myths.”

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”