The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.