Jenny Zhang Quotes

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

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

He had delusions of adequacy.

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.

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

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.