“We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.”

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”

“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”

“Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.”

“What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.”