And I can see no reason why anyone should supposed that in the future the same motifs already heard will not be sounding still ... put to use by reasonable men toward unreasonable ends, or by madmen to nonsense and disaster."
-Joseph Campbell, a deliberate misquotation
"People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances."
-Charles Frazier
"Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.”
-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
-Ben Okri