Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.