"Well, that's what they called you. It never hurt anybody on Targoff, did it? This kind of thing?"
"I wouldn't know. I've never been there."
"What did Nicky say?"
"He said Targoff looks like the richest planet he's ever seen, but is really the poorest. He said they have nothing and seem to have everything. He said they don't admit it, though. As far as the Targoffians are concerned, they do have everything."
"Well, do they or don't they?"
"It depends on your point of view," Channing said. "Objectively, they have nothing. Subjectively, they have everything. Point is, the stuff isn't real."
"What do you mean, it isn't real?"
"Say, has Qui Dor or someone been lecturing you? You're really going off on the deep end about this Targoffian business, aren't you?"
"Not Qui Dor, an Earthman, Viennese, I think, working for him. You haven't answered me, dear. I said, what do you mean it isn't real?"
"Well, it—it doesn't exist. It's all in the mind, in the imagination."