“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak...”

“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”

“They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on th...”