Remembrance, Like Rembrandt, Is Dark But Festive.

I Cannot Disobey Something Which I Do Not Know And The Reality Of Which I Have The Right To Deny.

... My Mind Lay Limp In An Empty World.

Religion Has The Same Relation To Man's Heavenly Condition That Mathematics Has To His Earthly One: Both The One And The Other Are Merely The Rules Of The Game. Belief In God And Belief In Numbers: Local Truth And Truth Of Location.

Even While Writing His Book, He Had Become Painfully Aware How Little He Knew His Own Planet While Attempting To Piece Together Another One From Jagged Bits Filched From Deranged Brains.

Literature And Butterflies Are The Two Sweetest Passions Known To Man.