"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."

"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."

"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."

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

"A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it."

"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."

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

"I'm still an atheist, thank God."

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

"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable."