This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there’s a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He’s going to have a lot to answer for.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.