My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.