If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.