Jack

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

“I am a product of the flames which burnt me; the anvil which forged me; and the will that made me grow formidable instead of breaking.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord