“Did you know we know we are all the object of another's imagination?”

“You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.”

“There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.”

“I need, therefore I imagine.”

“Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.”

“Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.”

“Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.”