Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.

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.

Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.

But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator

All music is beautiful.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.