For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.