On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

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.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.