“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”

“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

“I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.”