Libraries can take the place of God.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.