"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

"All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."