"All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"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."

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

"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."

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

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

"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."

"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."

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

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"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."