"The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen."

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

"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."

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

"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."

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

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

"I'm still an atheist, thank 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."

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."

"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable."