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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle
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Ye sacred nine

Alexander Pope, Selected Works
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Alfred Jarry, Selected Works
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Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…

Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
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Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.

Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works
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A novel is a tricky thing to map.

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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