Denis Thurrell

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank  are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Well, then, if a Point by moving three inches, makes a Line of three inches represented by 3; and if a straight Line of three inches, moving parallel to itself, makes a Square of three inches every way, represented by 32; it must be that a Square of three inches every way, moving somehow parallel to itself (but I don’t see how) must make Something else (but I don’t see what) of three inches every way—and this must be represented by 33.” “Go to bed,” said I, a little ruffled by his interruption: “if you would talk less nonsense, you would remember more sense.” So”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Λέμε μια λέξη και εκμηδενίζουμε έναν άνθρωπο.”
― Thomas Bernhard, The Loser