Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.