Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

—Poets and anarchists are always the first to go.
—Where.
—To the frontline. Wherever it is.

-- "Yo Yo Boing", Giannina Braschi

RIP Malediction Society.

Richard Harrow: Hrrm. You want this? (Brings out a book) My sister sends them to me, cause I used to enjoy 'em.

Jimmy Darmody: You don't anymore?

Richard Harrow: Hrrm. It occurred to me the basis of fiction is that people have some sort of connection with each other. Hrrm. But they don't.

-- "Home", 'Boardwalk Empire' (1.7)

Books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

-- "Poetical Works", William Wordsworth

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

-- "Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant", Ulysses S. Grant

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

-- "Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde

A man who picks up a cat by the tail learns a lesson that he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

-- "Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences", Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. - Heinrich Heine