„For three hundred years the race had glazed windows. Then they shut themselves up in little air-conditioned boxes and stared at silly television pictures instead. One might as well be on Luna.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."()“
— Sylvia Plath
„Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
„In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.“
— Cassandra Clare