“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 21

Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 123

On the message of the 2018 drama film "The Tale".
New Zealand Herald interview (June 2018)

Source: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (2007), p. 80

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994) Chapter Four: "Possible Woods"

Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)
Context: All we know is, that even the humblest dead may live along after all trace of the body has disappeared; we see them doing it in the bodies and memories of these that come after them; and not a few live so much longer and more effectually than is desirable, that it has been necessary to get rid of them by Act of Parliament. It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not.

Source: A Home at the End of the World

Source: Ordinary Heroes