What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

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.

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.

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.

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.