Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.

The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Science always uses metaphor.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.