Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent.

If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.