Nothing happens unless first we dream.

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (East of Eden)

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best — make it all up — but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

(In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald)