"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
— Robert M. Pirsig

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there."
— Robert M. Pirsig

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams