There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

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.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.