Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about. If you could hear other peo...
In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life,...
In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. It’s true at the fireside and i...
The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels....
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
Money has no religion except itself.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.
Night. Wind. Stars. Sea. Stones.
Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people.
No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
