“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”

“Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost.
"Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?”

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. […] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”

“The prayer of a person is (in reality) a light in his heart, so whoever desires, can illuminate his heart”

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

“Good fiction creates its own reality.”

“Only psychos and shamans create their own reality”

“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”