“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Soc...”

“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange thingselves and fairiesand now we don't. Now we see them, right?”

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand th...”

“If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.”

“If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.”

“Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.”

“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”

“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”

“You float like a feather," sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. ...”

“I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”