Siri Hustvedt Dream Quotations

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer...

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.