The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 6 (1976). Die Fackel (Vienna, May 30, 1913), no. 376/77.)
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
(William Burroughs (b. 1914), U.S. author. Quoted in Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, "On Dreams," (1981).
Taped conversation, 1974, New York City.)
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
(Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886), U.S. president. William C. Hudson, Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter (1911). Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, ch. 9, Thomas C. Reeves (1975).)
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, May 14, 1915. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).)
If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)