"What is an imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?" —Lucy Maud Montgomery



"Look, then, into thine heart, and write!" —Voices of the Night, Prelude, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



"According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else..." —J.K. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix



"...Never consider surface except as the extremity of volume."
—Donald Hall, Notes for Nobody



"The gods envy us, because we are mortal."
—Homer, the Iliad