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• When asked for his own [favourite poem], Dylan [Thomas] slowly said, "This is the best poem in the English language," and then repeated gravely and with feeling these line
  I am Thou art He, she, it is We are You are They are....
• Concerning the gods, I am not able to know to a certainty whether they exist or not.
  For there are many things which prevent one from knowing, especially the obscurity of the subject, and the shortness of the life of man....
• The common folk have many sayings, all about it being darkest before the dawn and clouds with silver linings and suchlike.
  We in the magical trade like to express our opinions of these matters somewhat differently....
• A woman's guess is more accurate than a man's certainty.
• How many mystery writers -- does it take to screw in light bulb?
  Two, one to screw it in almost all the way in and the other to give it a suprising twist at the end....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• On the wall of the women's restroom in the Enterprise: "Where no man has gone before.
• On the wall of the women's restroom on the Enterprise: "Where no man has gone before
• It's hard not to like a man of many qualities, even if most of them are bad.