“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.”

“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”

“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”

“Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.”

“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”

“If you look at it from another point of view, words can be very confusing. Because they are often beautiful and we have so many of them and although they are very powerful they have no will of their own, we can use them without permission-wildly, madly and get into terrible muddles.”