"The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention."
— Margaret Sartor (Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s)

"Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life)

"Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment."
— Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)