“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.”

“And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.”

“Everything that has been created, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm, consequently the big and the small world have been achieved by the effect of the elements.”

“My idea was that with an automatic move you could create a world [Newman's comment on his series small mixed media works, 1944].”

“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis”

“tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */</tt”

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”

“This world of imagination is the world of eternity.”

“Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.”