- "We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
The Eleventh Doctor

- "If I have seen further than other men, it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Asimov quoting Isaac Newton

- "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
- “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
Moby Dick (Heman Melville)

- "It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war."
- “Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.”
The Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

- “It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.”
- “So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
- “I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.”
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)

- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Foundation (Isaac Asimov)

-"Luminous being are We; not this crude matter."
The Empire Strikes Back (Grand Master Yoda)