"Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'."

“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)”

“We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.”

“The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Source : "Belief". Errol Morris' foreword to the book "The Secret Parts of Fortune" by Ron Rosenbaum, www.errolmorris.com. January 2000.

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny.”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

“What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organize everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview With Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.