Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men
The Stone the Builders Rejected.
Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me.
Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart