You can't cure a patient who's pretending to be sick.

Fiction: a game of pretend.

You can't cure someone who's pretending to be sick.

First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

You can't cure a person who's pretending to be sick.

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.