“No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”

“Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.”

“Real people scare. Then, if they're smart, they're the worst nightmare for anyone using a script to get around.”

“Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.”

“you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?”

“In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.”

“We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”

“I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?”

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”

“Working for government ought to be one of the most dangerous jobs ever. Occupational hazard might just get us a better class of parasite.”