A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

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

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

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.