“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
“Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.”
“It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.”
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.”
“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”
“My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.”