"Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual...

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

The waves lie on the beach

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

... you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest is in the territory between them.

Explaining a miracle doesn't make it any less of a miracle.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. {p.225}

Looking around, there is nothing but illusion. Everything is drowned in the oceans of illusion.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

Heartily know, when half - gods go, the gods arrive.

Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.

So the world ended. And the next one began. They were infinite. They were the beginning and the ending.

An honest man is always a child.

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

Most of us aren't equipped to handle miracles, man. I'm not sure that I am, not without being seriously stoned.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring...

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

Maybe there is no guile here," Deor suggested. "Perhaps it is just a group of dragons who have come together to raid the hold." "The difference? If they pretend to cooperate ... they must cooperate to...

You can need someone you don't love. You can't love someone you don't need. Consequently, you can be with someone you don't love because you need the person. But you can't be with someone you don't...

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

The cause - effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper...

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

As it happens I don't think it was God - the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the best parts of life