A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Real change isn't achieved as the result of white knuckling and hoping for the best. It requires changing your heart.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing