“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”
“What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.”
“As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.”
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”
“In a world were everyone is different, what can we call normal?”
“Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters”