Meryl Streep

She loved going to the movies but realized movies could not provide the catharsis required of great drama. Cinema is in fact anti-catharsis, and she attended the cinema to escape the possibility of catharsis ever actually happening in her own life.

Last night he was held captive by a bad dream, one of those dreams that seem to never end because they can only end badly. His best friend, a famous poet, had suddenly become his mortal enemy. The poet strapped him to a bed of nails on which he dropped plaster masks of the likeness of his face from a great height, which shattered on impact. The pain was excruciating, but the poet continued to administer the torture until his old friend confessed that he did not really know the difference between illusion and reality.

All real literature involves anxiety, and all anxiety may be traced to the fear of the unknown held by both the writer and the reader. All real movies are drenched in illusion, illusion is their point, that's why we love them.

"The human mind is a permanent factory of idols," John Calvin wrote. And darkness wakes us more often than light.