Surely God loves to get out of church buildings and go visit people where they hunger for reality.

In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

There is no freedom without justice.

It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.