“Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.”
“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.”
“It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.”
“Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?”
“He is one of those whom God has not quite finished.”
“Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.”