Quotes from David Zindell

Why must beliefs always seek to invade their victims, to fill them with fever, and then to infect yet others like a plague? Why

That which is made with words, with words can be unmade.

In my most recent novel, The Eros Project, I have called this age–old habit of people of making war and preying upon each other simply the War. This use is close to what Hobbes identified as the war of all against all, which he thought to be the natural state of man.

Only in one comic book, Dr. Strange, did I find anything that approached a depiction of the esoteric or spiritual. I remember Dr. Strange lying back in meditation and then leaving his body to do battle with villains on the astral plane. That, however, didn't strike me as very much like my magical moments beneath the sun and the sky when the whole world seemed to stand still.

I have written, too, words that I have borrowed from a source I can no longer remember: "The universe is like a single, superluminal tapestry of shimmering jewels, the light of each jewel reflected in that of every other.

As a germinated seed seeks its way out of the ground into the light of day, I longed to break free of the old thoughtways that stifled me and restrained my inspiration.

To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,

after a woman has reached a sort of final maturity, her soul has unfolded like a fireflower and no amount of time can extinguish the flame or attenuate the colors.

And I, through the reflecting pools of his deep–set eyes—I saw a savage man I did not like.

Being human, they often confuse the World–soul's intention with their most basic desires.

our quest for the secret of life was stupid and meaningless. There was no secret; there was only the crushing bondage of being, and finally when it was time to be no more, nothingness.

If there is no true creation then there is no true reality. If nothing is real, then man is not real; man in some fundamental sense does not exist. Reality is all a dream, and worse, it is less than a dream because even a dream must have a dreamer to dream it. To

If we look hard enough, we can discern hundreds of parts: kings and queens, warriors and troubadours, mages, bullies, and saints. And hustlers, adventurers, survivors, rebels, reactionaries, and rogues. And the part of us that wants to be more than human, or rather more fully human. I believe that we need to enlist all these separate selves into a single army of free companions who respect each other and love each other to the death.

1620Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously, everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness. ~ David Zindell

You may think of God as the timeless, eternal universe of mathematics.

The French philosopher Henri Bergson answered this succinctly when he wrote: "The universe is a machine for the production of gods.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

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.

Self-creation is the highest art.