"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.  
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
The idea of a multiverse is a natural consequence of the inflationary universe model.