“But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with its well-defined roads to factory and pool-hall, to work and pleasure, both organized, both shells, both a continuation of existence by forced means, in the shadow of life?”

“One of us needs to get laid.""Just one of us?""What are the odds of both of us getting laid?”

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways.”

“Humans are defined by their pain. Gods are defined by their happiness. Heroes are defined by their ability to revel in both the pain and the happiness, their entire existence wrapped up in only the quest that produces both in a lifetime. But, for all the glorious songs sung of victory, even heroes bleed.”