Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Life itself is a quotation.

Writing is only a guided dream.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality favors symmetry.