"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."

"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

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

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

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

"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."