Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.