“How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.”
“I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.”
“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”
“Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.”
“On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.”