Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900
was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
was an US (German-born) physicist
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.