Charles Baudelaire

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

We are all born marked for evil.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.