Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.