Quotes about Interpretation

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them, which you can erase right now

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.