"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

"That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
— H.P. Lovecraft

""The road to disaster is ordered by the righteous, planned by the well-meaning, and paved with their good intentions."- Shin'a'in proverb."
— Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm."
— William Gibson (Pattern Recognition)