Travel is impossible but daydreaming about travel is easy.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more to dream all the time.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult but my mum forbid it. Right now I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

This week the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous I should be sleeping or dreaming or reading a novel.