Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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.

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

None of us could believe what Trump was doing - because no one had ever seen anyone do it that way before.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.