"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."

"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 most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen."

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

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"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."

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."

"I'm still an atheist, thank 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."

"I芒鈧劉m the world芒鈧劉s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you芒鈧劉re not in love with."