“this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces”

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”

“You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you,…”

“Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.”

“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”

“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

“You will have to brace yourselves for this — not because it is difficult to understand, but because it is absolutely ridiculous: All we do is draw little arrows on a piece of paper — that’s all!”

“When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.”

“It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.”