Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.