We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Lady Windermere’s Fan (Oscar Wilde)

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
- Paradise Lost (John Milton)

Not all those who wander are lost.
-The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
– Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)