Douglas Adams is best known for The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but his Dirk Gently series is also pretty good. A quote from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: 📚💬 #mbmay

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Another favorite book is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The whole series, really. Here’s a quote: 📚💬 #mbmay

… such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it!

Here’s an amusing meta-quote from Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love, which was one of my all-time favorite books as a kid: 📚💬 #mbmay

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of — but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.