"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."

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

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

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

"For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd."

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

"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."

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

"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."