'What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?'

'But who among you was the first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any fringer that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?'
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated