Pancakes

Dr. Hilbert:

This narrator might very well kill you. I humbly suggest that you just forget all this and go live your life.

Harold Crick:

Go live my life? I AM living my life. I’d like to continue to live my life.

Dr. Hilbert:

I mean all of it. However long you have left. Harold, use it to have an adventure, invent something, or just finish reading Crime and Punishment. Hell, Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.

Harold Crick:

What is wrong with you? I don’t want to eat nothing but pancakes. I want to live! Who in their right mind, in a choice between pancakes and living, chooses pancakes?

Dr. Hilbert:

Harold, if you pause to think, you’d realize that answer is contingent upon the type of life being led… and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

Harold Crick:

You have to understand that this isn’t a philosophy or a literary theory or a story to me. This is my life.

Dr. Hilbert:

Absolutely. So go make it the one you always wanted.

Stranger than Fiction (2006)