High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.