"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
— William Blake

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow."
— Omar Khayyám (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings.
And why the sea is boiling hot.
And whether pigs have wings.'"
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There)

"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."
— Jean-Luc Godard

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
— Orson Welles

"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
— Tom Waits