Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness. Kevin Kelly (editor)
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. Katherine Mansfield
The head of a dragon, the tail of a snake. Japanese Proverb
The child of a snake is a snake. Swahili Proverb
Who falls into the sea will take hold even of a snake. Turkish Proverb