It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

The expression of divinity is in variety.

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.