Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.