The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

What will life be without music?

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.