"It's closer to Platonic Idealism in the theory that substantive reality is only a reflection of some other non-quantified spirit, awareness, consciousness, whatever you want to call it."

"Through characters, non-linear plot lines, or the involvement of multiple dimensions, it ultimately witnesses the physical world as inextricable from consciousness or the observer of that world."

"How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? … it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination."

"Through the process of elimination, the observer or some aspect of awareness is indirectly quantified."

"Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre."

"In life, the way we perceive life and reality is often instrumental in how things can unfold."

"The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts."

"Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level."

"Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe."

"Those who had entrusted their leaders knew it was for a purpose, and the purpose should be maintained."

"I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay."

"There is no hospitality like understanding."

"Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service."

"The genre is broad and includes life."

"On Earth it was day in some places, night in others."

"It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true."

"I hated you because you reminded me of...how I once was...of what I lost."

"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"

"Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered."

"Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial.""

"It hurts to care! It hurts so much to care!"

"Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was."

"Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex."

"How amazingly genetic."

"I suppose it would be a lot easier if a training manual were issued at puberty. Chapter One: what your body is feeling isn't necessarily you."

"Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?"

"I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer."

"Life kissed her however it could."

"Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense."

"Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability."

"Evil's last voice croaked to me, "How did you know I was only bluffing?" Because he wept. Because he wept."

"Which came first — the observer or the particle?"

"Once, before Time..."

"The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul … the soul … There is no bandage -- even crying is in vain."

"Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there."

"Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting.""

"Our trust exchanged dependency."

"Within me, and in others, what I seek to know is the darkness and the glory of all humanity. My vulnerability leads me to Truth, which is the ultimate defense.""

"Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer."