“what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.”
“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
“Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.”
“Why is it that churches and religions and that whole gang behave as if they have got the whole God knowledge down. I mean what kind of arrogance is that?”
“What most people call talent is our way to vent, and if we’re not discovered it will never pay the rent.”