“If things are real, they're there all the time.”

“Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time.""Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.”

“After all, real things are not simple.”

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”

“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.”

“As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.”

“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”