Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

"You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself."

"Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

"Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be."