It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.