Michael

“If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end?-he asks, anxious to hear the story.”
― Italo Calvino

“An Oliphaunt it was! So there are Oliphaunts, and I have seen one. What a life! But no one at home will ever believe me. Well, if that's over, I'll have a bit of sleep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Ah, how I rue that what I could have done I did not do!”
― Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: Part One

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature