George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.