"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."
— Oscar Wilde

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
— Franz Kafka

"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein