“A threat to kill is unreal--actual blood and shredded flesh has its own reality.”
“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”
“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.”
“Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”