Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.

Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.