"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death."

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

"When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of (his) faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half"

"Who to himself is law, no law doth need."

"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."

"I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them."

"Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven."

"Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe."

"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts."

"Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious."