There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born.'' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.
Angela Carter
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.