We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.