“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

“How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.”

“How you're still always trapped.How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

“One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.”