"[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity."

“What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.”

“I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.”

“There is a reason why you are here on this beautiful blue planet. Even if you aren't clear about what that reason is, the universe is gently nudging you forward in every moment. You are enough just as you are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Linn from Aug 14, 2011

“Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.”

“All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.”

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.38, Vintage

“Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.”

“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”