Quotes About Illusion

Somehow, he'd snaked into her head and sunk his fangs into her brain, poisoning her with hope. A cruel trick.

The concept of 'father' just feels made up, like Santa or the Easter Bunny.

Inside every believe, there's a lie." - Eliza Caelum

Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?

but I managed to masquerade as a person having a good time.

These clever goddamn people. They really know how to play a guy. But holy Hell, their biggest skill is raping you, all the while making you think you're having consensual sex.

When I mentioned to a friend I was writing a book about eggs he told me to be sure to mention how in Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" the young Arabella incubates a sky-blue egg of a song bird in the cleavage of her bosom ... When I checked, I was disappointed to find it wasn't a song thrush egg, but that of a chicken ... The original image in my mind disintegrated like the sound of a vinyl record after the power has been turned off.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Todd was everything Tallahassee was looking for: young, handsome, ambitious and completely full of shit.

It's been nonstop hallucinations.

new-and-improved, guilt-free Reality Ultra-Lite: all your beliefs with none of the facts.

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.