"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
— Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

"I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca."
— Lyda Morehouse (Fallen Host)

"His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky."
— David Morrell (First Blood)

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions."
— Muriel Spark (The Girls of Slender Means)