Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

It is a great art to saunter !

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

If there's not a message that people care about, they're not going to work on the campaign.

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.