The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.