It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.