“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

“So the goal isn’t to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.”

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”

“Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”

“I would want a dreaming machine that dreams up the most beautiful dreams and then show me exactly how to make them a reality…This is the eternal conundrum: the visualization of desires (dreams), and then the dissonance between that and reality.”

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”

“Good anecdote--bad reality.”

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”