Eric

“...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third...”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra