“Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?”

“The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.”

“Live like you are going to be here forever, but be ready to go at anytime.”

“All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?”

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”