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

"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

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

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror."

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

"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."

"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no 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."