Gediminas

“[Ducem Barr:] “Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, [...].”
[Bel Riose:] “And so would seem the most natural. But I differ. I connect scholarship with nothing but the means of answering difficult questions.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
― Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls

“Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation.”
― John Drury Clark, Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

“Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses