Der Anfang ist immer dunkel.
-- Michael Ende, die unendliche Geschichte

There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep.
-- Herbert Kretzmer, Les Miserables

This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Heart of my enemy, you shall not be my heart.
-- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

Мой мозг, до знаний жадный как паук
Всё постигал - недвижность и движенье.
Но толка нет от мыслей и наук
Когда повсюду им - опроверженье.
-- Владимир Высоцкий, Мой Гамлет.

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
-- Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

'There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the Jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
-- Rudyard Kipling, Kaa's hunting.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
-- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est
fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince

The air was neither night nor day,
But faintly dark with softest light
When first there glimmered into sight
The Cottage of Lost Play.
-- J.R.R.Tolkien, You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play

Does everyone in the world... know he's alive?
-- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzählt werden.
-- Michael Ende, die unendliche Geschichte