Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.