Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.