“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.”

“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”

“Religion often gets in the way of God.”

“If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice.”

“It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.”

“We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.”

“There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.”