We have to learn everything we do.

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

...because where we are is always the most important place.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.