"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."

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

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

"'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.'"

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror."

"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."

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

"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."

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."