“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”

“Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder…”

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.”

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story…”

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”