"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."

"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."

"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God."

"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."

"Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven."