“This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.”
“Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.”
“America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.”
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”
“The real world is where the monsters are.”