#Illusion

"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion."

"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."

"But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later."

"Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck."

"I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit."

"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."

"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?"

"Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms."

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."

"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."

"In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous."

"Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art."

"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken."

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success."

"Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!"

"The illusion, as ego suggests, is that it's about time - mechanical mind; it is not. It is, however, all about conscious space - something [the] soul has always known."