“it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness”

“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

“Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming.”

“We are the teachers and saviors; the light bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers. Without us humanity would lose its way in the dark.”

“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.”