"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life." - Albert Pike

"Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe." - Zohar

"All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all."
- MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER, All Things Bright

"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created." - JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Ascent of Man

"GABRIEL: How about cleanin' up de whole mess of `em and sta'tin' all over ag'in wid some new kind of animal?
GOD: An' admit I'm licked?"
- MARCUS COOK CONNELLY, The Green Pastures

"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;
A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak."
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics

"Nothing can be created out of nothing." - LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)

"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." - Tryon, Edward P.

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Valery, Paul