“I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.”

“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

“Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!”

“…between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.”

“But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it.”

“I challenge you, instead of asking with an attitude of doubt, “If the Universe or God loved me, why would this bad thing have happened or be happening?” ask with an attitude of curiosity “Assuming the Universe or God loves me, why did this thing happen or why is it happening?””

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”

“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”

“Ever since I alone have been aware of what happens to me, nothing happens to me.”