“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” H.P....

“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.” George R.R....

“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they’re amiable and sometimes not.” China Miéville, The...