“To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.”

“Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. Its packaged. We dont live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.”

“Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because theyre aware of it. I choose the second group.”

“Myths grew from the ancient tradition of passing on knowledge orally, the only means of doing so before writing.Theyre narratives of human existence. They helped our ancestors interpret reality, so...”

“Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.”

“Paranormal phenomena are only acollection of abilities that challenge known science.Physical lawsdont explained them. You have to go beyond the limits of traditionalcategories to make any sense of ...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.”

“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”