“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery eno...”

“You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?”

“The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.”

“Its kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.”

“Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.”

“Transcendence is transformation.”

“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.”