HardLight

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spellings of the words. Yet there is the constant desire to find some point in the twisting, knitting, unraveling nets of space-time on which a metaphorical finger can be put to indicate here, here is the point where it all began...”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It was a long job. It was a good clean challenge. He knew, if he went on chipping away he’d get through eventually. It is eventually that was a problem

Eventually the great A'Tuin would reach the end of the universe. Eventually the stars would go out. Eventually Nobby might have a bath. Also that would probably involve radical rethinking of the nature of time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Chesterton Reader: 21 Works in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition)