The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.
-Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the worst evil is done by good people who do not know that they are not good.
-Reinhold Niebuhr

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
-Ferdinand Magellan

The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
-John Steinbeck

Life in this world is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, humbly, "Go on, do Deformed Rabbit. . . it's my favorite."
-Didactylos the Philosopher, Small Gods