“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”

“Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.”

“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”

“The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.”

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

“It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other.”