Creatio ex nihilo.

“From the three generally accepted "times," only the present is real, the other two are just illusory concepts to facilitate the use of the world, or life "in time" by the "present" person. If only the present, or more precisely the moment exists...If time had remained fixed, then it should be named as Eternity because it will then have no beginning nor end, neither past nor future.”
― Marie Cachet

“If we look at our traditional tales, where the action before the final success always occurs three times: the last of the three times is always a little longer because it includes success: life is somehow the famous 0.142592653589793 after three....These stories are a kind of mythical Pi, that we finally 'mathematified', quantified by numbers. That's why the number Pi was and is so important. It explains the inexplicable, life, eternity, infinity, and at the same time the cycle of rebirth.”
― Marie Cachet

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Irish Impressions