“I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.”
“There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.”
“Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.”
“Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.”