“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

“So what I realized when I was a child was that if I were traveling as fast as light while holding a mirror before me, I would not see my image in the mirror, because as fast as the image of my face in light moved toward the mirror, why, just as fast would the mirror be moving away... It is a rather frightening idea, in fact, that if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected light such as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.”

“This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.”

“The trick was to let everyone think that I couldn’t feel at all. The trick was to make everyone believe that I was only what they made of me.”

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”

“The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.”