Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Profiles aren't journalism.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.