Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

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.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Reason is also choice.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

Differentiation is in name and form only.