Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.