Kurt Vonnegut

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

- Kurt Vonnegut, author

Voltaire

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Sue Monk Kidd

"Danger, I realised, was a thing you got used to."

- 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd

Paul Valery

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

- Paul Valery, poet, philosopher, author

Thomas Jefferson

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA