어떤 악마는 스스로 악마라는 사실을 깨닫지 못한 채 평생을 살아간다.
그래서 어떤 천사는 혹시 자신이 바로 그 악마가 아닐까 평생을 고뇌한다.

- 배명훈, 장편소설 <은닉>에서

Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws... It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was, when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men?

- Zora Neale Hurston, from her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road

i surf because

I remember the first time [my son] ever caught a wave, and he looked back at me. He had the same reaction on his face as if he'd just won the world title or something. You know it's that feeling you get when you're riding a wave. It's like the moment you realize something special beyond belief is happening because the thing that you're riding will never break like that again.

 - Donavon Frankenreiter, from i surf because short film

But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

 - Rene Descartes, 'First Meditation: What Can be Called into Doubt'