"What part of the boot you from, hon'?"

Peter Bogdanovich: "Do you find that Italians have a pride about where they come from, even though they've never been there?"

David Chase: "Very much so."

PB: "He's second generation."

DC: "It's something to talk about. 'You're from there?' Like it matters. You know, Kurt Vonnegut, the duprass, the granfalloon: the relationship that has no meaning."

--commentary for
The Sopranos pilot

"The most meaningful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to co-relate its contents. We live on a placid island in midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

--H.P. Lovecraft,
The Call of Cthulhu

"We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the wheel depends."

--Carl Gustav Jung,
from Synchronicity