Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.