If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear