“People imagine, and people believe: and it is belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”
“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can’t help making fly-traps, and men can’t help making symbols. That’s what the human brain is there for – the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
“I’ve tried to believe, but I don’t, I can’t, and there’s no use pretending.”