The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

Nature is an experimenter.

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.