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“You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that's the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, 'I'm queah and I luuuuuuuuve it'...”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?' The old woman was rocking, chanting, lost in her incantation; but Tenar sat upright, and split a reed down the center with her thumbnail.
'I will,' she said. She split another reed.
'I lived long enough in the dark,' she said”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“He was a funny-looking child who became a funny-looking youth—tall and weak, and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five