We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.