The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.