Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.