“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.”

“Until finally he sees-- as it lies all around him-- the truth: it is space that makes stars.”

“If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.”

“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.”

“Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.”

“...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”