Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most soph...
Do you know why he did what he did to you? Because he could.
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha...
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotional...
But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.
Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.
All empires are created of blood and fire.
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.
There can only be one king.
I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of the...
Tori) (Simon) (Tori) Tori waved at the woods behind our rented house.
I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.
Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.
And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed
If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!
It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess...
By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain.
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.