There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.