Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.