Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Movies are different from real life.

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.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.