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I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.