J Austill

“All donkeys are born wise," was the reply, "so the only school we need is the school of experience. Books are only for those who know nothing, and so are obliged to learn things from other people.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz [with Biographical Introduction]

“I can only think that the business with the apple must have upset him more than I realised.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myths.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

“War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard