"What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?"

-- Richard Dawkins

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“Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.”

Source : John Shelby Spong (1991). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture”, HarperOne
“My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I walked into? What is this place? It's wild, and there's all these crazy rockstars walking around - who are all older than me, which was really weird. I was like, 'I feel too old to be in a superhero movie,' and they're like 10 years older than me.”
“If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing
“I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.”
“Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body.”
“Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free.”
“To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.”

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