Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.