The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
I cannot but be astonished that Socrates, after having so often repeated to his fellow citizens that he did not pretend to any wisdom, but had been appointed by the gods to a mission of benevolence towards them, should have been condemned to death.
I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect.  
To write is to engage with the world.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.