No Country for Old Men, pg 295

"It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong."

--Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, pg 295

Moby Dick, pg 151

"Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding."

--Herman Melville, Moby Dick, pg 151

Ray Bradbury

"I’m going to have a T-shirt made. It says: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down."

--Ray Bradbury, A conversation with Ray Bradbury

No Country for Old Men

"It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people can't be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

The Little Prince, pg 91

"Here, then, is a great mystery. For you who love the little prince, as for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere--we do no know where--a sheep we have never met has or has not eaten a rose.
Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: has the sheep eaten the flower or not? And you will see how everything changes...
And no grown-up will ever understand the significance of this!"

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, pg 91

The Little Prince, pg 13

""Straight ahead does not take anyone very far...'"

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little , pg 13

Moby Dick, pg 56

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12, pg 56