#solipsism

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."

"I am my world."

"When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."