We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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.

Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.