“For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality”

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”

“Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.”