“To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence”
“Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.”
“It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”
“Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.”
“We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.”