Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.