“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”
“But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.”
“The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other.”
“Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.”
“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.”
“If it weren't for health insurance we wouldn't need health insurance.”