You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

When you look back do you see yourself or a Mirage of your Self?

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts? Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you come and sit relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.