“Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.”

Source: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997), p. 14

Sometimes a Fantasy.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)

Source: Austenland

As quoted in &quot;Success of Harry Potter bowls author over&quot; at CNN.com (21 October 1999) http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9910/21/rowling.intvu/; also quoted in &quot;Urban Legends Reference Pages : Harry Potter&quot; at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Context: I absolutely did not start writing these books to encourage any child into witchcraft. … I&#x27;m laughing slightly because to me, the idea is absurd.<br>I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, &quot;Ms. Rowling, I&#x27;m so glad I&#x27;ve read these books because now I want to be a witch.&quot; They see it for what it is... It is a fantasy world and they understand that completely.

Eight-Year-Old World, p. 26.
I Can't Stay Long (1975)

After having dreams about physical terms, which he initially dismissed as a "misuse of physics terminology" by the unconscious, in a letter to Carl Jung (16 June 1948)
Context: Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies … Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.

"Letters" (p. 143).
Metropolitan Life (1978)

Eryximachus to Phaedrus, p. 43
L'Âme et la danse (1921)