“Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.”

“But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.”

“Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.' 'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly.”

“It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.”

“Man’s striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.”

“It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.”