“But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.”

“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.”

“He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?”

“Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.”

“There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.”

“When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.”

“Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.”