“I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.”
“I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.”
“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
“Imagine for a moment what a real bonobo legacy would be: a world without team sports!”
“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”
“I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.”