For most writers, the knowledge they gain from reading and study equals or outweighs experience, especially if that experience goes unexamined. - Robert McKee

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.

Life teaches that the measure of the value of any human desire is in direct proportion to the risk involved in its pursuit. The higher the value, the higher the risk. We give the ultimate values to those things that demand the ultimate risks — our freedom, our lives, our souls.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.