"Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.” Seagull

"The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. Baudolino

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. Animal Farm