- “This is magnificent—and it is true! It never happened; yet it is still true. What magic art is this?” (75; the real Puck)
- “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” (83; Morpheus)
- “Mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you.” (109; Death)
- “Each mind creates and inhabits its own world; and each world is but a tiny part of that totality that is the Dreaming . . . ” (volume 2, 196)
- “the ordered chaos of the Dreaming” (volume 2, 208)