"Your only limit is your soul."
-- Ratatouille
"Still, there are times when I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."
-- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
"I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition. I did not have anything exactly in mind, but when the picture was complete I would know."
-- Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
-- Hal, 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
-- Norman Mailer