Friday, November 28, 2008

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"You'd sell your soul to find the great truth. Well, human life doesn't have great truths. We're born in doubt, we spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive, and once we do that, we love each other like I love you."

-Emily (Blair Brown) to Dr. Edward Jessup (William Hurt) in Altered States (1980)
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