[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

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.

You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

All religions have been made by men.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.