"'We want nothing from you that you do without grace,' Mrs. Whatsit said, 'or that you do without understanding.'" —Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
"I once got drunk on the first flower of spring." —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." —attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
"I had a teacher once who liked to say there were only seven plots in all of fiction. Well, I am here to tell you there's only one: who am I." —The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012