“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.”

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

“There are some remedies worse than disease.”

“If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind, then what is the diffrence between this world and a dream?”