The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

‎"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 it was because there was hardly any magic.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

"How can you be so sure that you're actually awake now, and that your dream is not the reality?

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.