“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“Fraud is the daughter of greed.”
“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”
“She said there was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”
“This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”