Eric Norris

“A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
― Alexander Pope