“Fear only goes as far as belief.”

“Fear goes where it is invited.”

“The claim that industrial agriculture is the only way of feeding a large population is about as scientific as a belief in Creationism - and far more damaging.”

“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”

“The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.”

“There is a limit to caution and farsightedness; if one goes beyond the limit, fear and wretchedness will result.”

“You can find out far more about a writer from his poems or fiction.. because in his stories or poems, his preoccupations, obsessions, moral standards, the quality of his intelligence, his loves, hates, aspirations, belief and fears.. insist on expression.”

“Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.”