I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Truth rings no bells.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.