"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."

"You can make anything by writing."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."