It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride. Among other things, it's impractical. It just doesn't work. The world doesn't work that way.

I believe that Israel is very likely not to survive, it's not going to last forever, and now there's nothing that someone like me can do about it, in that it's a threat of nuclear or biological or chemical attack.

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.