Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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.

If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world

Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.