We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges..

God is the nest we build together..

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real..

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

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 ….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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..

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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

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