“I may never recover. It was like an out-of-body experience. I’m an alien trying on human rituals.”
“I see something like fear on his face. What if I’m an alien invader trying to lure him to a secluded place so I can suck his brains out? Or a vampire, ravenous for his blood?”
“Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.”
“As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.”
“Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.”
“Anil may have been human, but he thought like Rrilk," Phiirr said. "And I never found out what a Twinkie was.”