Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.