Quotes About Creation

Is this blasphemy, my lord? I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.

What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.

If God didn't prefer for us to drink at night, he wouldn't have made neon!

Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not.

Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

Time, in his view, was a short, sloppy path from Eve's crayon box to the Messiah's fire box.

Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was--that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.

You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Nevertheless, remembering how the curate described what existed before creation, Scully saw dark matter out there, thick, unknowable, aching to made into a world.

Adam first, Eve next, and also, confused about her role, the first outlaw?

Él, Dios, había cometido un desastroso e imperdonable error de juicio: diseñar un universo imperfecto.

Sorrow in discovering that the pyramid was not a five-thousand-year wonder of the civilized world, mysteriously and permanently constructed by generation after generation of hardy men who had died in order to perfect it, but that it had been made in the back room at Sears, by a clever window dresser, of papier-mâché, guaranteed to last for a mere lifetime.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

belleza no era simplemente algo que contemplar, era algo que una podía hacer.