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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Pray for strength to preserve.

A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.

Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

If you have a beautiful view, you don't need a good wine to feel dizzy.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.