“Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.”
“The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.”
“Our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.”
“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. ”
“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.”
“Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”