30 quotes
You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.
War in Heaven (1998)
Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.
The Wild (1995)
In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.
War in Heaven (1998)
Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?
The Broken God (1992)
The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
War in Heaven (1998)
The memory of all things is in all things, Danlo remembered.
War in Heaven (1998)
All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
The Wild (1995)
Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.
War in Heaven (1998)
Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.
The Broken God (1992)
But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...
The Wild (1995)
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.
The Wild (1995)
To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?
Neverness (1988)
This was the true nature of consciousness and the meaning of matter, that ultimately both were one substance without cause or control outside itself.
The Wild (1995)
That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die.
War in Heaven (1998)
A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
The Broken God (1992)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Neverness (1988)
For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.
Neverness (1988)
"What is a human being, then?" ...
"A seed."
"A … seed?"
"An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
The Broken God (1992)
Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.
Neverness (1988)
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Neverness (1988)