My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure..

People don't want other people to be people..

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers..

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us..

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does..

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe ….

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not ….

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came la….

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment..

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something..

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity..

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing..

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which w….

We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board ….

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could w….

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by ….

You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it ….

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so t….

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He choo….

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden..

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagr….