In myth, violent death is always justified.

Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

The world’s myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Language cannot say everything, fortunately.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.