"The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus."
- Rebecca West

"Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are."
- Sy Montgomery

"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
- Dodie Smith