Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.