“At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?”
“Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.”
“Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.”
“...the borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden borders of ethics.”
“She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.”
“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”