“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. ”

“We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.”

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.That is their mystery and their magic.”

“Religion can bring great comfort to children.It can also turn their lives into a living hell.”

“Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness!”

“There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!”