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

"I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals..."

"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

"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."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

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

"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."

"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."

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."

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