To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.