Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe
The price of being the best is having to be the best.
Terry Pratchett
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.
Good Omens Neil Gaiman
You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.
Michelangelo
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn Jillette
Rosenberg, Teya; Hixon, Martha P.; Scapple, Sharon M.; White, Donna R. Diana Wynne Jones - An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). ISBN 082045687X
Diana Wynne Jones
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Noel Adams
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.