"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." (Animal Farm)

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia... You spend your whole life stuck in [a] labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present." (Looking for Alaska)