“We live in a world of banal miracles.”

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story...”

“He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

“What business does memory have with time?”

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”

“This is a love story, Michael Deane says. But, really, what isnt? Doesnt the detective love the mystery, or the chase, or the nosy female reporter, who is even now being held against her wishes at ...”

“Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”

“Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Beca...”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”