People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.