Bridie

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music.' (-- The Overlords, from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End)”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables