Famous quotes containing the words van and/or ash:
“To be is to be the value of a variable.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)