“If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development”

“It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.”

“If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.”

“There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.”

“It's like you live your life not understanding anything at all and then you find out there's a whole new subset of things you don't understand.”

“Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”