To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil?

With food still scarce, there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.