Nick Azzaretti

“God neither created us nor wished us to be created, but that we are the work of an inferior deity, a Demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God? Heavens, how probable it seems; and this overweening hubris has been handed on down to our children.”
― 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

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

“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free”.’ Of”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet