Craig DiLouie > Quotes

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“There is a proverb that says America is always 3 days away from revolution. Stop delivering food to the supermarkets, and see what a country of 300 million people with a strong sense of entitlement and over 250 million guns have to say about it.”
― Craig DiLouie, Tooth and Nail

“I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.”
― Craig DiLouie

“I remember our lives together, all our hopes and joy and sadness and dreams, and it all seems so meaningless and also piercingly beautiful, a single act in an endlessly repeating play in which the actors constantly change. A play in which the story doesn’t matter but whose continuation is essential.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“As the Buddhists say, everything is illusion. Everything is energy, and as it is above, so it is below,”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Nobody likes getting pushed around, but the truth is we spend our whole lives getting pushed,” Jake said. “Getting pushed ain’t the hard part. The hard part is figuring when to make a stand and push back.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“If your delusion is actually true, are you still insane?”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The Buddhists are right: Life is illusion. Quantum mechanics is also right: Reality is a construct of human observation. Even time itself isn’t real.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“This was real love. You took somebody as they were and did anything for them.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“I said, “You act like saying yes to every urge that pops into your head is brave. It’s actually the easiest thing to do. Saying no and living with the consequences is so much harder.”
― Craig DiLouie, My Ex, the Antichrist

“Social media had promised to bring people together but only helped polarize them along new tribes isolated in separate echo chambers.”
― Craig DiLouie, Our War

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. Wes Craven Director, A Nightmare on Elm Street”
― Craig DiLouie, How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

“Anomalies don’t mean ghosts. They’re simply things I can’t explain.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Often, there was no reason why bad things happened to good people, just a cause. Shit happened, and sometimes, it happened to you.”
― Craig DiLouie, Suffer the Children

“And he finally achieved another desire, which is to learn what comes after death. He learned that everyone lives forever in one form or another. Everyone receives immortality.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“It’s a love for truth, coupled with a belief that anything is possible”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Roebuck and Chapman stand behind a seated woman wearing a hospital gown and the bulky steel apparatus on her head. She is pale and crying. The front of her gown is dark with a brownish vomit stain. The skin around her eyes is similarly dark as well as puffy. The eyes themselves appear haunted. Behind her, the men grin. Roebuck pops a champagne bottle and pours Chapman a splash in a Dixie cup. He leans to pour a little for the woman, which stays untouched on the table in front of her. He takes his own swig directly from the bottle. Gloria Flick walks on-screen holding up a sign on which she scrawled WE DID IT! The seated woman stops crying. Eyes glassy and deranged, she looks directly into the camera lens while the researchers go on celebrating. Her face shines with madness as it stretches into a broad, lunatic grin.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The hardest thing about escaping a cult wasn’t leaving but making sure it had left you.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“That’s the thing about extroverts and introverts. The extrovert usually sets the agenda.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“For science, the problem is simple. If a ghost is made of energy, it will constantly bleed its own essence as heat in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics. A sustained haunting would require a constant power flux.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“David thought of the Flood, how the rising water covered the Earth and killed every living thing on it. He wondered how Noah survived with his sanity intact while the world drowned all around him.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“finally become sane again after so long. A refreshing breeze”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“Some types of EMF can produce fear in people. They make you uneasy and feel like you’re being watched. In extreme cases, you wind up paranoid, crying your eyes out, and absolutely terrified. EMF can even make you hallucinate ghosts.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Sometimes it is only in the lack of something we discover how strong it is weaved into the fabric of the day.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“So much of what made me Claire was a projection of genetics, chemicals, and environment. Take them all away, and what are you? Just a ghost.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The trick is, ghosts aren’t easy to talk to. If it was easy, they’d tap you on the shoulder while you’re making supper and ask you if you’d be willing to discuss their feelings about your house being built on their burial ground.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“In our dimension, we have gravity and light. In higher dimensions, you might have gravity but no light. The Standard Model gets real strange when it comes to good old gravity in our realm: Why is it so weak compared to the other three forces of nature? Why can a kitchen magnet pick up a paper clip that takes an entire planet to hold down with gravity? It makes no sense.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“It was the most soul-crushing thing I’d ever seen. The universe rendered as an endless, meaningless chaos that we shape into reality and onto which we project our hopes, instincts, and desires as narratives and meaning. A giant, seething junkyard flowing with algorithms that we imagine as a purposeful machine.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Folks didn’t care about the truth, not when it interfered with a comforting narrative.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us