"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best."

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."

"She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."