"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

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

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

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."

"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"

"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?"

"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."

"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

"I'm still an atheist, thank 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."