“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…”
“Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.”
“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”
“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”
“Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.”
“There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.”