“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all. ”

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