“How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?”

“Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.”

“You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”

“She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.”

“We are all the product of our past and the perception of our future.”

“Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.”

“I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.”