If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle