“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.”

“They looked at each other and laughed, then looked away, filled with darkness and secrecy. Then they kissed and remembered the magnificence of the night. It was so magnificent, such an inheritance of a universe of dark reality, that they were afraid to seem to remember. They hid away the remembrance and the knowledge.”

“Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.”

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

“Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.”

“One universe, one body...in this urnthe animal night sweats of the spirit burn”

“Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.”