Illusion is an integral part of reality, - L. P. Jacks

Is not every man familiar with situations in his own life, when the needs of self-expression cannot be satisfied by saying any thing whatsoever times and occasions when, to make his fellows understand what he means, he must straight way do something, or be something, and perhaps hold his tongue the while? And can we deny that the same holds good of the Universe?

Cerebral pathology is no bad training for a novelist.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.