I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.