Quotes About Reality

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.

Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick. He didn't say anything but he stood there, looking sadly at Andreas and me, and as a shaft of moonlight came slanting in through the window, I recognized Atticus Pünd. I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

That's what he said. So if she could see him across the road, that means her eyesight was perfectly good. She made up the whole thing.

It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.

I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness,' says Antonio in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it's accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.

It was very hard to tell when he was acting and when he wasn't – sometimes with unfortunate consequences

Mind you, she was a very sexy little piece … bloody attractive and the toast of the town. Everyone was talking about her. It was only when we got back from the honeymoon that I discovered she was totally self-obsessed and boring!

But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it. But

The truth was important. The truth mattered. It mattered more than the fact that he was only twelve and that his story was completely preposterous. People like Granny, all bullies in fact, only managed to survive because they lived behind the truth. Once people knew them for what they were, they would be powerless.

He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.

You're never too young to die.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

Clearly, I'm not psychic.

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

Because there is something psychologically wrong with you on some level if you want to be on TV, if the only way you can fulfill yourself is by literally going from three dimensions to two dimensions.

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.