You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

—Cyril Connolly

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

—Albert Einstein

Poetry is the deification of reality.

—Edith Sitwell

Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.

—Laurens Van der Post

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

—Joyce Carol Oates