...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

All the truth of God are discoverable through every day life.

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

You will know the joy of action only when you are blissful by your own nature.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.