"We're most all of us mad, here."
— Cheshire Cat

"There's no sense driving yourself mad trying to keep from going mad. You might as well just give in and save your sanity for later."
— Ford Prefect

"In the absense of light, darkness prevails."
— B.P.R.D. motto

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
— Douglas Adams

"Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then stuffing it down your pants to see what happens."
— Greg Van Eekhout (Norse Code)

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die."
— Lovecraft, Howard Phillips

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)"
— Mercedes Lackey (Owlknight)

"Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable."
— Mercedes Lackey (Brightly Burning)

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
— Bill Watterson (The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book)

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

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

"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)

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division"
— R.A. Salvatore

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist."
— Nagaru Tanigawa (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Volume 1)

"Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile."
— Spider Robinson (Off the Wall at Callahan's)

"...one of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off. _The Callahan Touch_
"
— Spider Robinson

"Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other."
— Spider Robinson (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon)

"...I know good design when I fail to trip over it."
— Spider Robinson (Callahan's Secret)

"Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around."
— Spider Robinson