Nick Azzaretti

“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“Its designer had a gilt complex, and had tried every trick with gold paint, curly pillars and expensive drapes to make it look less like a ship and more like a boudoir that had collided with a highly suspicious type of theater.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

“for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

“Brilliant constellations shone down on the Discworld. One by one the traders shuttered their shops. One by one the ganefs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-story men awoke and breakfasted. Wizards went about their polydimensional affairs. Tonight saw the conjunction of two powerful planets, and already the air over the Magical Quarter was hazy with early spells.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic