“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
“All things are connected. There is no separation, except in the mind, which is most powerful, after reality.”
“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”
“It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination.”
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.”