Neal Stephenson Quotes

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.

Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

You came from a source.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

Things were first made, then words.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Nothing comes out of nothing.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?