We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream..

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the….

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil a….

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definit….

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that cont….

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe yo….

Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore..

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal..

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have….

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refus….

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along..

With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has ….

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can ide….

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought..

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a he….

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all..

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one say….

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try..

Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were to….

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity f….

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers..