The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it t… - Samuel R. Delany

“Gods are nothing but low blood sugar,” I said. “St. Augustine, Peyote Indians…you know how it works—

They did not realize that reality must prove itself again and again to questioners, and that it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself under logical rigour. The idea of asking questions was almost impossible; but only almost.

You’re you, Jo. You’re you and everything that went into you, from the way you sit for hours and watch Di’k when you want to think, to the way you turn a tenth of a second faster in response to something blue than to something red. You’re all you ever thought, all you ever hoped, and all you ever hated, too. And all you've learned.