“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”

“Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.”

“But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.”

“Life is a battle, Sasha. All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations and eventual mortality of our bodies. All things happen by conflict, of one sort or another.”

“all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.”

“One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.”