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But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

--H.P. Lovecraft, "Celephaïs"



To insomniacs, it's always three o'clock in the morning.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald


I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.
--F. Sagan

And the further I get from the things that I care about
The less I care about how much further away I get...
--The Cure


If we do not meet with something agreeable, we shall at least meet with something new.
--Voltaire


"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
--T.S. Eliot

"I spent my youth in alternately crawling in front of kitchen maids and insulting the great."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald