You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.