Well, it’s no use you talking about waking him when you’re only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you’re not real.
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
It’s too late to correct it when you’ve once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
What does it matter where my body happens to be? My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
A traveler sees what he sees. A tourist sees what he came to see.
– G. K. Chesterton
I’d rather be a lightening rod than a seismograph.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Everybody’s life becomes more fabulous, every minute, than the most fabulous book.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The straight world outside, it seems, is made up of millions of people involved, trapped, in games they aren’t even aware of.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
But once you’ve been through that door, you can’t just keep going through it over and over again.
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
So when all is said and done
And the brave have proved themselves
Who breathes the best
– Populous, Breathes The Best