Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

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.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.