Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.