Source: A Coney Island of the Mind
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 10, Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds
Jace to Clary, pg. 325
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god. The idea of Glycon is Glycon, if I can enhance that idea with an anaconda and a speaking tube, fair enough. I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe. It’s a fiction, all gods are fiction. It’s just that I happen to think that fiction’s real. Or that it has its own reality, that is just as valid as ours. I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction – before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction. This is the most important world, the world of fictional things. That’s the world where all this starts.
“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
"Interview with Old Nick" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.features, The Guardian (February 23, 2008)
God and religion
Up on the Roof (1962), co-written with Gerry Goffin, performed by The Drifters
Song lyrics, Singles
