"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."

"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed of them."

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable."