Marchpane

“He wasn’t a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.”
― Michael Crummey, Galore

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― Yeats, William Butler

“As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.”
― Jose Saramago

“Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles