“The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.”

“In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.”

“The unwritten laws of the gods were promulgated against depraved manners, inflicting a severe destiny and penalty on the disobedient; and these unwritten laws are the fathers and leaders of those that are written, and of the dogmas established by men.”

“Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.”

““Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.””

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

“Even God's providence
Seeming estranged.”

“Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle.”

“It does not seem possible to me that a God who loved men to that degree that he died that they might be saved, abandons his children the moment they are dead. It seems to me that an infinite God might do something for a soul after it has reached the other world.”