What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential candidate, is going to fight Evander Holyfield for charity. I hope they save some of that money for funeral expenses.

I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart