Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discove….

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room..

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things ….

The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, ….

When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and in….

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I ….

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working..

...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respec….

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History o….

In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that t….

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. -….

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously..

Before I traveled my road I was my road..

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the hone….

Every decoding is another encoding..

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to wri….

I am excessively diverted..

I'm a super spiritual person, so every now and then I'll say, "Everyone, get out of my room because I need 15 minutes by myself to just sit alone." I….

Power which can be abused, will be abused..

This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, o….

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it….