"'Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
'With your own voice,' he said."
— Erica Jong (Sappho's Leap)

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Looked into the sky, heavy with smoke and human fat, and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. It is not God that kills the children, not fate the butchers them, nor destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

"Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter."
— Christopher Moore

"If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them."
— Christopher Moore (Practical Demonkeeping)

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place."
— Christopher Moore