“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”— Annie Dillard
“Perhaps one morning, walking in an air of glass, turning, I will see the miracle.”— Eugenio Montale
“At first, I naturally thought I was dreaming or that I had gone crazy, and I felt for my pulse to see if I was still alive.”— Harold Stephen Black
“The first time I saw a photocopier, I thought, 'That's it, that's what I want to do with my life.'”— Julie Doucet
“The sudden enlightenment that accompanies the solution of a problem is its own reward.”— Martin Gardner