"It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatross, potentials unknowingly murdered."
- Ben Okri

"Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
- Elrond, from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"

"Our brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the unknown known."
- André Breton

"Do not seek the treasure."
- Coen Brothers, O Brother Where Art Thou

"With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet