Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.