A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.