Linchuan

“At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern