He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

What the hell does it all mean? Does 11:11 really mean anything at all? Well, that simply depends on whether you believe life has meaning in the first place.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.

Great dreams require great courage.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.