“Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness.”

“The hardest blessing you give up is silence.”

“You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!”

“A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.”

“In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television.Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.”

“Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.”

“Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions.”