“The Ohlones seem to have lived at a time and in a spiritual place before the imagination was cast away and isolated from “mainstream” consciousness. Since dreams were real, when an animal-god appeared in the hollows of the dream mind, it was not mere illusion: it was divine revelation.”

“When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ...”

“Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.”

“The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading away, having created an illusion. All is but a dream. And, at the peak of happiness, Angélique had vanished, in the faint breath of a kiss.”

“If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!”

“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.”