What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.