“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.”
“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God”
“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.”
“Reason is the illusion of reality”
“What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?”
“Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.”