Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner

The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
-Paul Valery

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anias Nin

Where can I go
that I might live forever?
- Jack McDevitt, Ancient Shores

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- HL Mencken