“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”

“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”

“It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

“Even pain is impossibly exquisite.”

“It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.”

“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”

“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”

“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”