“If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”

“You aren’t really jumping through time, that’s the illusion; what you’re actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to—maybe even creating—another. The second one is identical to the one you just left, including all of the changes you made in it—up to the instant of your appearance. At that moment, simply by the fact of your existence in it, the second timestream becomes a different timestream. You are the difference.”

“The overriding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago. . . Nothing could be further from the truth.”

“Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.”

““Did you experience hallucinations or illusions?”
“What’s the difference?”
“An illusion is a misreading of actual sensory data, while a hallucination is seeing something that isn’t there.””

“Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.”

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

“You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.”

“Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.”

“We create the illusions we need to go on.”