Thalia

“Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Listen, Ford,” said Zaphod, “everything’s cool and froody.” “You mean everything’s under control.” “No,” said Zaphod, “I do not mean everything’s under control. That would not be cool and froody.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Good writers borrow, great writers steal. —T. S. Eliot (but possibly stolen from Oscar Wilde)”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot

“There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven / The Dispossessed / The Wind's Twelve Quarters