When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved … as a spiritual practice.

The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

A fusty nut with no kernel.