“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”

“Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.”

“There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.”

“Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.”

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

“...we never cease hoping--and thus did our Judge condemn us to suffer in saecula.'Ferrante asked: 'But what is it that you hope for?'You might as well ask what you will hope for yourself. ...You will hope that a wisp of wind, the slightest swell of the tide, the arrival of a single hungry leech, can return us, atom by atom, to the great Void of the Universe, where we would somehow again participate in the cycle of life.”