All very unreasonable, but Arthur Gammet was beginning to suspect that most wizards were unreasonable people. - Robert Sheckley

Why, after all, did I have to live with reality? Wasn’t illusion a perfectly suitable condition?

He shared the common human hallmark: he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable—a routine miracle.

There was a moist, fertile, decaying sort of odor in the air. Florida was the sort of place that always seemed to be threatening to slip out of time and go back to the Paleozoic where it belonged. The light was a tawny gold filtered through a fragmented wall of green.