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.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!

The expression of divinity is in variety.

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