“This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.”

“The atom was split by persistence.”

“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.”

“I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.”

“It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.”

“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.”

“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”