“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.”

“When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.”

“You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real.”

“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.”

“Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful.”