The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

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.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.