'Let's see if I've got this straight,' he returned. It was a phrase of hers that he had adopted 'It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there's this couple lying naked in bed reading the Enclyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a good time or don't they?'

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know…

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and still do - which is the more important.