Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.