"Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern."

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Quoted by Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (pg. 42)

"I read a psychology book last week in which the author said that the most mysterious thing in the universe is man himself. We're blind about the most important thing in our lives, our own selves."

-Chaim Potok, The Chosen (pg. 156)