"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely."
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
- Terry Pratchett

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
- C.S. Lewis

"It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
- Mark Twain

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
- John Stuart Mill

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
- John Stuart Mill

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
- W. H. Auden