“No more movie references. No more fictional characters to relate to. This was real. It was destiny. I was…a thing, a commodity.”

“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.”

“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”

“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”

“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”