There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]