Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

A creator always needs excuses.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.