The Magic Labyrinth

“Perhaps God—if there is one—doesn’t care,” Burton said. “There is no evidence whatsoever that He does.”

Sometimes you are arrogant, thinking you are better than others. More often you are humble. Too humble. I might even say, sickeningly humble. That is another form of arrogance. True humility is knowing your true place in the cosmic scale.

“Okay,” she said, “I’ll listen to the wise. Are you wise?”

“Wise enough,” he said, “and mighty experienced, which is the same thing if you’re not too stupid.”

I concluded that extreme mysticism was closely allied to madness.

If you live very long time or are immortal, perhaps you learn everything about everything in order to pass the time.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.

Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.