“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. ”

“Divine revelation is perfect and, therefore, it is not subject to continual and indefinite progress of human reason.”

“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if obedient to the other constraints of mammalian biology, is the key to a more nearly perfect social contract.”

“Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.”

“And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.”