And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.