"I have never seen nor heard nor read anything to disprove my conviction that 
this universe is my product, and mine alone.  Look--I exist.  I can take that 
as a basic fact.  I observe that I have a particular form; hence there must be 
a physical environment to suit it."
  "How about the possibility that your exquisite form might be the result of 
your physical environment?"
  "Don't interrupt," I said patiently.  "Don't be sarcastic and above all don't 
be heretical.  Now.
  "Since my existence requires a certain set of circumstances, those 
circumstances must necessarily exist to care for me.  The fact that part of 
these circumstances are century-old trees and ageless heavenly bodies is a 
matter of little importance except insofar as it is a credit to the powers of 
my fertile imagination."

                                        "The Golden Helix" (paperback)
                                        Theodore Sturgeon
                                        page 209