Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.