“If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string”

“Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings.”

“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974) ”

“For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.”