“Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.”

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”

“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.”

“Illusions... or real illusions. Within the illusions hide real illusions... from the real illusions, the illusions are created. Within the truth hides the lie... within the lie hides the truth. That is the Mist -Rokudo Mukuro”

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no matter how persuasive or sophisticated the latter and no matter how attractive the illusion of definitive or final truth may be.”

“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”