Karl

“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.”
― Plotinus