Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.