I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. Daniel Handler
According to my theory, a dark spot in the sun is a place in its atmosphere which happens to be free from luminous decompositions. William Herschel
Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black - the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem. Frank Crane