A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be, like electron orbitals: a quantum-mechanical effect that maybe explains why the insect can apparently teleport from one place to another, disappearing from one point and reappearing a couple of meters away, without seeming to pass through the space in between. There sure is a lot of bright stuff in the jungle. Randy figures that, in the natural world, anything that is colored so brightly must be some kind of serious evolutionary badass.

— Neal Stephenson

One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

— Winston Groom

As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, 'Even here? Even here?

— Rick Strassman

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

— Munia Khan

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

— Munia Khan

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world.

— Munia Khan

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

— Patrick Modiano

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... Mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

— Vera Nazarian

A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit.

— Munia Khan

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

— Mehmet Murat ildan