Constructing Reality Quotes

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!