Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better wh… - Roger Zelazny

Cute," she said, smiling. "If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

When you talk about being an 'anticipator,' of having a pretty good idea of when something's going to happen—or how, or who will be there—isn't that a kind of divination?"
"No. I think it's more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions."

"And the secret is," I lowered my voice, as at a poetry reading, "he was right! It is vanity, it is pride! It is the hubris of rationalism to always attack the prophet, the mystic, the god. It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us."