“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”

“The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide.”

“There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.”

“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”

“Sometimes she felt she had fallen asleep inside herself while she was wide awake working.”

“They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?”