Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
James Branch CabellEvery notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch CabellCreeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.
James Branch CabellWhat is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.
James Branch Cabell