“Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.”

“People don't want other people to be people.”

“Time turns our lies into truths.”

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”

“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”

“When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”

“The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.”