"'Hang on to the words,' he tells himself. The odd words, the old words, the rare ones. Valance. Norn Serendipity. Pibroch. Lubricious. When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been."
-Margaret Atwood, "Oryx and Crake"

"'Horses frighten me as much as chickens do.' he said.
'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.'"
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Of Love and Other Demons"