“The people who say you are not facing realityactually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.Reality is above all else a variable.With a firm enough commitment,you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”

“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”

“You're the hero my young romantic heart settled on so long ago, you're an absolute tiger at times, you're devious and not above playing a few tricks. I love you whatever you are all the time. I've loved you for ten years without stopping. I'll love you for as long as I have breath in my body. I'm committed to one man and I'm ready to face real life with him.”

“I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.”

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. ”

“You can mean more than one.You can mean thousands.I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.I'll pretend you can hear me.But it's no good, because I know you can't.”