The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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.

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

Don't be a shadow of anyone, You are unique way or another

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.