"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

"People can only be found in what they do."
— Timothy Findley (The Wars)

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere)

"'Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.'"
— Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

"There is of course a difference between flying and flying. For some it is merely a way of moving, for others it represents freedom."
— Pentti Holappa

"They're proud of their own excellent upbringing... and by this they mean that they have all learned to speak, behave and think in exactly the same way."
— Pentti Holappa

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
— Stephen Hunt (The Court of the Air)

"If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space."
— Stephen Hunt

"'There is no new world. We saw that this evening.'
'If it doesn't exist, we'll have to create it.'"
— Pentti Holappa