“Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!”
“The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.”
“The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".”
“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”
“But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.”
“You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software!”